These are the good guys. The women and men who don’t have to give a shit, but do anyway – about you, about the person who brings them coffee between takes and about the world we live in. And, we can infer, children everywhere.
Read on for the world’s 31 best stars, carefully ranked in order of awesome by the Collectively team – which makes the ranking totally arbitrary, but also, in a very real sense, utterly definitive.
These stars aren’t just in it for the brownie points or to offset poisonous ego emissions. No, they genuinely care, and have found ways to translate that concern into impactful action. Think of this as a Rich List, if you will, but one in which rich = (moral fibre) x (doing something about it) x (inspirational charisma). Currently, less than three per cent of global philanthropic dollars go to the environmental sector. These guys, in other words, are too rare a breed, and would make the planetary A-list every time.
31. Chris Hemsworth – God of Thunder (and whales)
Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky in Malta for Oceana.org (Photo: Oceana.org)
Strictly speaking, Aegir is the Norse god of the sea. But the Oceana.org environmental group are quite happy for other Nordic deities to muck in. Thor star Chris Hemsworth has turned his attentions to the future of our oceans since making 19th century tale The Heart of the Sea. Recently calling for an end to whaling on BBC television and condemning the modern practice as “totally unnecessary”, last year he also took a trip to the Maltese coast with wife Elsa Pataky, an ambassador for Oceana. The pair helped the research team of the Oceana Ranger explore geological and ecological regions in need of protecting – though perhaps via more subtle means than a giant hammer.
30. Natalie Portman – vegan shoe designer
Natalie Portman in Africa for Free the Children (Photo: Free the Children)
The Black Swan star made the biggest splash with her 2012 ethical-sustainable wedding, complete with vegan menu, indigenous wildflowers, and an engagement ring made from recycled platinum. But she’s been campaigning for animal rights since she was eight, traveled to Rwanda in 2007 for the documentary Gorillas on the Brink, and has even dabbled in designing her own vegan shoes. She’s also an ambassador of Free The Children, an anti-poverty campaigner, and last year pressed Harvard University to drop its links to coal, gas and oil companies.
29. Drake – just Drake
Drake performs at NPK in Oslo, Norway (Photo: NRK/Flickr)
Don’t underestimate the impact of Drake’s 2010 Reverb Campus Consciousness tour, linking with environmental student groups and educating his fans on the benefits of going green. For the tour, Drake arranged recycling and composting stations at each stop. Lasting measures include a tour bus that runs on biodiesel and a rider that insists on biodegradable catering supplies and organic produce – artists such as Grimes (whose eco-rider stipulates that “absolutely no Styrofoam, plastic of foil containers may come in contact with food products”) have since very publicly followed suit. Much of Drake’s merch is made from sustainable materials, too. What did you think the dude meant by ‘Take Care’?
28. Gisele – supermodel tree-momma
Gisele plants a new tree in Rio for World Environment Day (Photo: World Environment Day)
She may recently have sold her famously low-impact LA pad to Dr Dre, but Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen remains passionate about recycling and solar energy. A vegetarian and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN environment programme, she has a planet-easy skincare line, Sejaa, and another company, Ipanema, which has raised awareness about conscious water-usage via the medium of… flip-flops. But the rainforests are her key cause, into which her other projects often feed funds. Put simply, she’s planted a shit tonne of trees. While other parents tweet their children’s first words or first steps, last year Giselle received 170,000 likes on an Instagram image proudly captioned ‘My little Benny planted his first tree! #proudmamma’.
27. Ian Somerhalder – nicest vampire for at least a couple of centuries
Ian Somerhalder cleans up a beach in LA (Photo: Ian Somerhalder Foundation)
The Vampire Diaries and Lost star used his 32nd birthday to launch the Ian Somerhalder Foundation, to raise money for projects that protect animals and the environment. Now he’s working on a documentary about Zimbabwean biologist Allan Savory, directed by Vampire Diaries camera director Geoff Shotz. “He’s figured out a way to reverse climate change, literally through agriculture,” says Somerhalder, whose other efforts include supporting the It Gets Better Project to reduce suicide amongst LGBT youth, and campaigning for RYOT.org, an LA-based news source that links every story that moves its readers to an action they can take. His ambition for the documentary? No less than winning Savory a Nobel Prize for agriculture.
26. Rachel McAdams – worst Mean Girl ever
Rachel McAdams campaigns for Food & Water First (Photo: Food & Water First/rachelmcadamsonline.com)
For five years the Spotlight star ran a website with friends called GreenIsSexy, sharing “quips and tips” about the small changes that can have a big impact on the environment. For McAdams herself, these include driving an electric car (when not cycling), using solar energy at home and committing to unplug appliances. The Mean Girls actress also proved herself anything-but when she helped clean-up crews after Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. And she’s made videos for the Food & Water First Movement, which works to preserve prime farmland and source water in her native Canada.
25. Harrison Ford – “Never tell me the odds”
Harrison Ford speaks for Conservation International (Photo: Conservation International/Flickr)
When not playing the renegade hero as Han Solo and Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford is vice chairperson of Conservation International, which he first encountered back in 1991. “The message was simple: people need nature,” he has said, while working to support biodiversity research, protect endangered species and tackle big planet-polluting corporations. In 2014, he angered the Indonesian government by grilling them about logging during an episode of James Cameron’s environmental documentary series, Years of Living Dangerously. Yes, there is the small matter of his flying addiction. But, as he told National Geographic, Ford’s awareness of the relationship between mankind and nature stretches right back to a childhood encounter with a fox.
24. Adrian Grenier – digital sustainability warrior
John Kerry speaks to Adrian Grenier about The Ocean Cleanup at COP21, Paris (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
In addition to supporting Charity: Water and music-minded children’s charity Little Kids Rock, the Entourage star is co-founder of SHFT.com. This sustainable lifestyle platform aims to engage with the environment and lever the power of the consumer in every area from architecture and design to film, fashion and food. “As filmmakers who are connected to climate change, we felt that we could bring something creative to express the changes we wanted to see,” say Grenier and founding partner and film producer Peter Glatzer. He’s also the creator of Echohero, a barcode-scanning app that informs people about the environmental impact of potential purchases. Smart guy.
23. Cameron Diaz – buenos Diaz
Cameron Diaz appears in French environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary Human (Photo: YouTube)
A trend-setter when it comes to celebrity driving habits, Diaz was one of the first to drive a hybrid Toyota Prius back in 2002 – closely followed by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock and Miley Cyrus. Now she sings the praises of the all-electric Tesla S – along with Ben Affleck and Jay Z. In 2009, Diaz also took the bold step of electing herself the planet’s much-needed publicist. This has included making a five-minute documentary about our relationship with Earth. “I was like, I’m going to get a camera, and I’m going to mobile-home it across the country, and I’m just going to find out what people are thinking,” she told Marie Claire. More recently she hosted Power Shift: Energy + Sustainability, a globe-circling series about sustainable energy from Hollywood to the Space Station to an Amazonian village.
22. Jake Gyllenhaal – trendsetter offsetter
Jake Gyllenhaal gets involved with Edible Schoolyard Project, New York (Photo: Edible Schoolyard/Flickr)
Jake Gyllenhaal is no born-again “eco-warrior”. He was born into a family of social activists and grew up producing his own food on the family farm. Starring in sci-fi disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow early on in his career probably didn’t dent his environmental enthusiasm, either. In fact, after making the film about a new ice age triggered by climate change, he took a trip to the North Pole to see the very real plight of the Inuits first hand. He’s an enthusiastic offsetter and supporter of the Carbon Neutral Company, and spent $10,000 sending trees to Mozambique to counteract his own carbon output. But he’s also happy to get his hands dirty. His involvement in the Edible Schoolyard Project saw him help American schoolchildren establish community gardens.
21. Woody Harrelson – natural born environmental entrepreneur
Woody Harrelson speaks at Power to the Peaceful festival in 2005 (Photo: Gohsuke Takama/Flickr)
The True Detective star’s green ventures always have a touch of daydream, not to say an edge of delerium, about them. And this is without mention of his current plans to open a pot dispensary in Hawaii. His most recent business launch was Sage, the world’s first organic vegan beer garden. But let’s not forget Prairie Paper, a Canadian company manufacturing a new form of paper from wheat-draw waste. Or Reco Jeans, the range of 50 per cent recycled denim he launched with Alanis Morrisette. Harrelson has been an environmental activist even since he climbed the Golden Gate Bridge to protest against the devastation of ancient redwoods, and travels to movie sets in a biodiesel bus run on hemp oil. A vegan and raw foodist, Harrelson even insisted the Twinkies his character ate in Zombieland be vegan replicas.
20. Will.I.Am – the world’s uppest upcycler (also the world’s cyclest upcycler)
Will.I.Am on his Ekocycle two-wheeler (Photo: Ekocycle)
We know how it usually goes: brands approach celebrities with a marketing idea, celebrities lend their name and take the cash. The Black Eyed Peas founder and tech fan decided to flip reverse this, taking his own concept of Ekocycle – informed, characteristically, by some slightly kooky wordplay – to Coca-Cola. Launched last year, it’s a range of lifestyle products made from recycled drinks bottles and aluminium, from bicycles to tailored suits, and has a concession at Harrods. His other inventions include a 3D printer with cartridges made partly from recycled Coke bottles. It looks as though the producer is starting to put his 2009 environment anthem Take Our Planet Back into action.
19. Lily Cole – impossibly stylish business-starter
Lily Cole at LeWeb13 Conference, London (Photo: LeWeb/Flickr)
The flame-haired model turned ethical style advocate was one of the first catwalk stars to speak out about supply chains, and took self-education as a key component of her role as global ambassador for The Body Shop. Now she’s helping the world to recycle everything from goods to skills via her social gifting network, Impossible, which recently partnered with transparency-motivated London start-up Provenance to help tell the inspiring stories behind fair trade goods.
18. Arnold Schwarzenegger – robot from the future that’s been sent back many times over to save humanity
Arnold Schwarzenegger at the UN Climate Change meeting in 2007 (Photo: UN Photo/Flickr)
“Climate change is not science fiction.” Many have said it, but none with quite the same ring of cold, flat imperative as the Terminator. Last year the former California governor addressed a gathering of world spiritual and philosophical leaders in Paris to issue a call to action. In 2013 he converted his fleet of Hummers to run on bio-fuels. His love of nature, he says, goes back to a simple Austrian childhood surrounded by rolling hills and ruined castles, where “we knew about sustainability before it was hip: we called it necessity”. Last year he managed to combine his two loves – the environment and Blowing Shit Up – when he exploded an elephant tusk to illustrate the need to end illegal poaching by illuminating the demand for ivory. Randomly, he also starred as cigar-puffing therapist to ‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye in a programme for the National Geographic Channel in which Nye passed through the “five stages of climate change grief“.
17. Pierce Brosnan – making sure tomorrow never dies
Pierce Brosnan addresses a crowd at a screening of National Geographic film Great Migrations (Photo: World Bank Photo/Flickr)
The only 007 to star in the Environmental Hall of Fame, and to drive a plug-in car. Some of the features of Bond actor Pierce Brosnan’s Malibu “eco-mansion”, meanwhile, set a standard of which an tech-smart Q might be proud. It has a purpose-built water recycling pant, low-flow toilets, solar panels (natch) and lights that switch off if a room is vacant for more than five minutes. But – pleasingly keen though he is on telling girly magazines about composting – he’s not just about the eco-lifestyle. Brosnan serves on the boards of Natural Resources Defense Council, California Coastal Protection Network and Sea Shepherd, and campaigns against everything from nuclear weapons to the deafening of whales by navy sonar. He also uses his former training as a visual artist to sell paintings in aid of environmental and humanitarian charities.
16. Mark Ruffalo – Hulk un-smash
Mark Ruffalo campaigns for Friends of the Earth (Photo: Friends of the Earth/Flickr)
The Avengers star turned green long before he played the Incredible Hulk. An anti-fracking activist who lives on a converted dairy farm in New York, Ruffalo founded the local pressure group Water Defense in 2011. And he has been penning plentiful op-eds on the subject like the investigative journalist he plays in Tom McCarthy’s acclaimed movie Spotlight ever since – most recently for EcoWatch.com. He’s also a supporter of The Solutions Project, aimed at encouraging a full transition to clean energy in the US by 2050. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the man’s been approached to run for office – never say never. In the meantime, he’s still pushing for a Hulk film with a dedicated environmental theme.
15. Emma Watson – fixicus equalitus!
Emma Watson speaks for the UN’s gender-positive HeForShe campaign (Photo: UN/HeForShe/Flickr)
Her wand-wielding alter-ego in Harry Potter was hip to a good cause, even if it did confine itself to the rights of houseelves. When it comes to sustainable fashion, Emma Watson shares Hermione’s youthful enthusiasm and can-do attitude. She’s created three collections with fair-trade and organic clothier People Tree, using upcycled materials and organic cotton. Last year, she used her fresh status as fashion icon to push sustainability and ethical clothing via Instagram: the press tour for Regression saw her rock a new sustainable outfit every day. Now she’s the face of the UN HeForShe campaign, a solidarity movement mobilising men to help end gender inequality towards women. Her campaign speech went viral.
14. Salma Hayek – global hero of glamorous goodness
Salma Hayek meets Syrian refugee children in Lebanon in support of Unicef (Photo: Unicef)
Where to start? The Mexican actress is a lifelong supporter and more recently a board member of Global Green USA, directing green initiatives from the creation of green jobs to the Red Carpet, Green Cars scheme, which replaces celebrity limos with hybrid cars for promo events. She has her own charity, the Salma Hayek Foundation, dedicated to raising awareness about domestic violence and helping Mexican street children. She had her California home fitted with solar panels and drives a hybrid car. And, as the wife of François-Henri Pinault, the head of Gucci, she’s one of the most powerful green voices in fashion. We don’t think it’s a coincidence that Gucci has taken huge steps to become one of the most sustainable luxury brands, and partners with UNICEF on women’s rights issues.
13. Colin Firth – Nice, Actually
Oxfam Ambassador Colin Firth in Ethiopia (Photo: EcoAge.org)
Livia ensures her husband is green right down to the fossilised wooly mammoth ivory and conflict-free black diamond cufflinks. A partner in Eco Age, he also mucked in with the odd shop-floor shift when the business had a retail store in Chiswick. Off his own back, The King’s Speech and Bridget Jones actor supports Oxfam, the Refugee Council, and defenders of tribal people’s rights, Survival International.
12. Livia Firth – furtherer of fairer fashion for everyone
Livia Firth speaks at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit (Photo: Copenhagen Fashion Summit/Flickr)
To some extent, Colin Firth bathes in the green glow of his wife Livia, an Oxfam Global Ambassador who’s just designed a sustainable fashion collection for M&S. She is the mastermind behind the Green Carpet Challenge, which encourages stars and designers to put sustainable style in the spotlight – hence, for instance, Michael Fassbender rocking a bespoke ‘GCC’ Tom Ford tux at the 2016 Golden Globes. She’s also the director of Eco Age, a consultancy business with a motto of “ethics and aesthetics”, that’s helped many a celebrity put their bank balance to environmental good use, and even helped KT Tunstall create a solar-powered recording studio.
11. Pharrell – honey-voiced water warrior
Pharrell presents RAW for the Oceans at NY Fashion Week (Photo: RAW for the Oceans by G-Star)
If we say “Pharrell”, chances are you probably won’t say “eco warrior!” Nevertheless, the producer-rapper is apparently never happier than when saving the ocean – one discarded plastic bottle at a time. He’s the creative director of Bionic Yarn, an NY startup that makes fabric from waste plastic that has been salvaged from the ocean. Their biggest collaboration to date, RAW For the Oceans, saw them create a recycled denim line with G-Star. “When I was a little boy, the first neighbourhood I lived in was called Atlantis,” Pharrell has said. “That’s where I first discovered my love of music, through the motion of water… We owe it.”
10. Vivienne Westwood – just get it over with and make her queen of everything
Vivienne Westwood protests outside UK prime minister David Cameron’s home in Oxford (Photo: TalkFracking.org/Flickr)
You may have dreamt of driving a tank up to David Cameron’s house. But have you actually done it? Eh? EH? As with so many things in life, Vivienne Westwood has. The 74-year-old fashion designer stayed true to her punk credentials when she decided to protest against new fracking licenses in the north of England by driving a white tank through the British prime minister’s constituency home in Oxfordshire, in scenes that made Mad Max: Fury Road look positively normal. Earlier in the year she appeared at another demo cradling a bloody and maimed doll, which campaign groups explained was a “Fracked Baby of the Future“. No, you couldn’t wear it. But you couldn’t easily ignore it either. It’s all in keeping with Westwood’s recent announcement that she’d be deliberately scaling back her fashion empire and focusing on “quality not quantity“. Signs in her shops now read “buy less, choose well, make it last”.
9. Akon – superstar electrician for all of Africa
Akon at the Women & Youth Day of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kenya (Photo: US Embassy/Flickr)
The platinum-selling Senegalese-US rapper recently launched a hugely ambitious project called Akon Lighting Africa that aims to do exactly what it says on the tin. Overseas aid, he reckons, is failing. Meanwhile 600 million Africans still live without electricity. His plan is to spark an African energy renaissance, based around profitable energy companies managed and staffed by Africans, who will learn engineering at a specially created academy in Mali. His partners are a Senegalese political activist and a Malian solar energy CEO. On the back of this Akon had another solar-powered lightbulb-moment and, in an unlikely partnership with Shell, just opened a football pitch in Lagos powered by both solar energy and the movements of the players.
8. Thom Yorke – international karma policeman
Radiohead frontman gets behind mental health charity The Big Ask (Photo: The Big Ask/Flickr)
“If I was going to write a protest song about climate change in 2015, it would be shit,” Tom Yorke recently commented – in an interview with bestselling environmental thinker George Monbiot, no less. Instead, his band Radiohead have dedicated more time – and, naturally, more angst – than any other to carbon-conscious touring. Measures include two sets of equipment (one in Europe, one in America) to avoid flying it round the world, tour buses run on biofuel, a 100 per cent lighting touring system, and trying to play only festivals accessible by public transport. “They are purveyors of truth, beauty and a moral responsibility to the planet,” declared the Liars after supporting them on tour. “We’ve been thoroughly schooled on how to function as a band – not just musically, but ethically, too.” Yorke is also a committed vegetarian, anti-war and human rights activist, and last year performed in aid of 350.org. And, as he went on to say to Monbiot in the interview with Parisian magazine Télérama, “I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.”
7. Matt Damon – goodwill founding
Matt Damon volunteers for the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
As the stranded spaceman in The Martian, Matt Damon makes water by extracting hydrazine from the rocket fuel, splitting it into nitrogen and hydrogen, and burning the hydrogen with oxygen to make water. Flashy, if a bit fiddly. In real life, the actor took the very big and very direct step of co-founding Water.org, which provides safe drinking water for developing countries. Water.org has been going since 2009 and, aside from a strange “toilet-strike” campaign involving a joke press conference and pals such as Bono pretend-pledging not to poo until the world’s sanitation crisis was over, it doesn’t seem to have put a foot wrong. Its joined-up strategies and commitment to transparency wash away any suggestion of a vanity project.
6. Stella McCartney – couture’s conscience
Stella McCartney and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visit Summit Fringe in 2014 (Photo: Foreign Office/Flickr)
Quite simply the queen of ecologically grounded fashion. You’ll know about her longterm avoidance of leather and fur. It probably won’t surprise you that she maxes out on organic cotton and uses recycled materials from handbag linings to bra fastenings. But did you know that Stella McCartney’s website offers the option to have your purchases delivered carbon-neutrally? Or that all her UK stores, offices and studios are powered by wind energy? (Go on then, insert your own joke about vegetarians here.) The fashion designer has been an activist from the get-go, and sees sustainability as “a long-term commitment” – hence her involvement as the first luxury goods company to sign up to Clean By Design, a green supply-chain programme aimed at reducing the environmental impact of the suppliers to multinational corporations.
5. Brad Pitt – maker-in-chief of it to be right
Brad Pitt speaks for Make it Right in New Orleans (Photo: Make It Right/Flickr)
If The Big Short star hadn’t become the chiseled centerpiece of modern Hollywood, he might have finished training as a journalist. Or he might have followed another lifelong interest and become an architect. Instead, he uses his fame to campaign on green issues and animal welfare (most recently battery farming), and to fund green building projects for the disadvantaged and displaced. Sioux and Assiniboine families recently moved into the first of 20 ‘cradle to cradle’ design homes in the Fort Peck reservation in Montana – all built by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation. The solar and geothermal powered homes are 75 per cent more energy efficient than conventional builds. Pitt founded his organisation in response to Hurricane Katrina, going on to build 150 energy-efficient homes for families in New Orleans. “This is the definition of architecture: solving problems through design,” he said.
4. Cate Blanchett – pioneering greenovator
Cate Blanchett is an appointed Climate Action Hero for Earth Hour (Photo: Earth Hour/Flickr)
Even heritage buildings can go eco – as actress Cate Blanchett proved in her role as co-director (with her husband, the director Andrew Upton) of Sydney Theatre Company. The Greening The Wharf project, which won two Green Globe awards, involved installing a vast rooftop solar power system, as well as other measures. “Theatre,” as she reasoned, “has always been a place to stimulate visionary conversations and practical action”. Blanchett’s may well have been the first mouth from which you heard the word “greenovation”. In 2007 her (recently sold) Sydney mansion was renovated to include rainwater tanks and solar panels. She was also an early supporter of SolarAid, providing solar lights to remote regions. When you’re as famous as the Oscar-nominated Carol star, of course, you can have as much of an impact with what dangles from your ears as what lines your roof, and she’s partial to a pair of fair-mined Chopard earrings.
3. Edward Norton – virtuoso of virtue
Ban Ki-moon appoints Edward Norton a UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity (Photo: Wikipedia Commons)
For the Birdman star, environmentalism is in the blood. His father is an environmental lawyer, his sister studied environmental policy, his brother leads wilderness expeditions, and his grandparents set up the non-profit Enterprise Foundation for affordable housing – which is now, under Norton’s influence, fully embracing green building. The actor is himself a UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity, launched LA’s Solar Neighbor Programme, hosted National Geographic’s environmental series, Strange Days On Planet Earth, and heads up the Maasaid Wilderness Conservation Trust, helping the Maasai make a living from their 400 square miles of land – including a new conservation safari. Plus he just raised $425,000 for one Syrian refugee. Dude is right.
2. George Clooney – George Clooney
George Clooney talks Darfur with the President (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Everything George Clooney does comes with a rich, full-bodied flavour of integrity and a dash of class. Even coffee adverts. In 2010, following a trip to Sudan, the Hail, Caesar! actor launched the Satellite Sentinel Project – using satellite imagery to monitor and warn against human rights abuses in the war-torn country. Last year, he realised he could combine his commitment to the region with his role advertising Nespresso. He proposed working with the coffee company to start producing the product in Sudan, which has one of the only climates where coffee still grows in the wild. The result? The first sustainable infrastructure in Sudan for over 30 years, work for thousands of farmers, the resurrection of an industry that was thought to have been lost for good, and a suitably silky espresso with intense aromas. Swish.
1. Leonardo DiCaprio – King of the World
Leo addresses the UN in 2015 (Photo: United Nations Photo/Flickr)
When it comes to environmental issues, there’s only one leading man. Leonardo DiCaprio may be poised to win his first Oscar for survival epic The Revenant. But Hollywood’s most bankable actor was fighting for the survival of the world’s remaining wild places long before he took to eating raw buffalo liver and kipping inside dead horses. Founded in 1998, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has campaigned to protect wildlife, save the oceans, and empower local communities to defend their lands and culture. The dude is a UN Messenger of Peace and turned his NYC apartment into an self-styled “eco-home”. And in December 2015, he joined the ZuliHome and Powerhive advisory boards, focusing on helping people commit to sustainable living and supporting technologies at the forefront of moving away from fossil fuels.
“When it comes to environmental issues, there’s only one leading man”
Now DiCaprio is turning his attention to low-impact tourism. Set to open in 2018, the previously over-fished and deforested Atlantic island of Blackadore Caye will be a “Restorative Island”, where “restorative” applies to more than the effect it has on visitors. It will feature an artificial reef to shelter fish, and a nursery growing marine grass for the local manatee population. Meanwhile, DiCaprio did a Marlon Brando when he shared his recent Golden Globe for Best Actor with Native Americans. The Revenant has also become a catalyst for conversations about climate change: due to unprecedentedly warm conditions in Canada, the whole shoot had to be moved to Argentina in pursuit of snow. Who knows, maybe it’ll also set a trend for movies filmed using only natural light.
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